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This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.

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“An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

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Translator's introduction; 1. An intellectual adventure; 2. The ignorant one's lesson; 3. Reason between equals; 4. The society of contempt; 5. The emancipator and his monkey; Notes.

The Ignorant Schoolmaster Five Lessons in

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 July 1991
      ISBN-13 9780804719698
      978-0804719698
      ISBN-10 0804719691
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.

      Trade Review
      “An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

      Table of Contents
      Translator's introduction; 1. An intellectual adventure; 2. The ignorant one's lesson; 3. Reason between equals; 4. The society of contempt; 5. The emancipator and his monkey; Notes.

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